by Kile Smith | Nov 7, 2023 | Choral music, new music
Franklinville-Schwarzwald Männerchor Sängergruß (2023). TTBB, 1’30”. Premiered 5 Nov 2023 at the Fall Concert of the Damenchor Wald-Echo with the Franklinville-Schwarzwald Männerchor, Jacqueline Smith director, Vereinigung Erzgebirge, Warminster PA. A...
by Kile Smith | Oct 12, 2023 | Choral music
In German, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, this transcription of the second movement from the original Vespers is for SATB and organ with optional violin and theorbo, 4’30”. This was premiered, in English, 23 Sep 2023 by Transept, Timothy Campbell,...
by Kile Smith | Oct 12, 2023 | Choral music
This transcription of the first movement from the original Vespers is for TTBB and organ, 2′. This was premiered 23 Sep 2023 by Transept, Timothy Campbell, Founder and Artistic Director, at the Cathedral of St. Joseph, Sioux Falls, SD. Aaron Cates, Nicholas...
by Kile Smith | Aug 10, 2023 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
Dark Is the Night and Green Is the Grass (Tumša nakte, zaļā zāle). 2023, Latvian folk song, SATB, 3’30”, in Latvian with English translation. Dedicated with gratitude, respect, and love to Christopher Walsh Sinka and the Riga Project Choir. In Latvia in...
by Kile Smith | Aug 8, 2023 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music, Radio
Wireless. 2023, A cantata for TTBB, soprano saxophone, harp (or piano), 32’. Commissioned by Chor Leoni, Vancouver, Canada, Erick Lichte Artistic Director, through the Chor Leoni Diane Loomer Commissioning Fund. Premiered 10, 11 May 2024, Chor Leoni, Julia Nolan,...
by Kile Smith | Mar 16, 2023 | Choral music, new music
Northland. SATB choir, piano, 14′. Text by Claude McKay (1890-1948). Commissioned and premiered by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Joshua Habermann, Artistic Director, July 23rd, 2023. The Santa Fe Desert Chorale asked me for a work addressing immigration, and this...